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Helenville, WI

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Overview


Helenville is a tiny town located in the state of Wisconsin. With a population of 238 people and just one neighborhood, Helenville is the 497th largest community in Wisconsin. Much of the housing stock in Helenville was built prior to World War II, making it one of the older and more historic towns in the country.

Occupations and Workforce

Helenville is neither predominantly blue-collar nor white-collar, instead having a mixed workforce of both blue-collar and white-collar jobs. Overall, Helenville is a town of professionals, service providers, and managers. There are especially a lot of people living in Helenville who work in computer science and math (12.07%), business and financial occupations (9.77%), and maintenance occupations (8.62%).

Also of interest is that Helenville has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.

Of important note, Helenville is also a town of artists. Helenville has more artists, designers and people working in media than 90% of the communities in America. This concentration of artists helps shape Helenville’s character.

Setting & Lifestyle

Helenville is a good choice for families with children because of several factors. Many other families with children live here, making it a place where both parents and children are more likely to develop social ties with other families. The town’s good public school district and large population of college-educated adults provide an environment conducive to academic success. Many people own their own single-family homes, providing areas for children to play and stability in the community. Finally, Helenville’s overall crime rate ranks among the lowest in the country, making it one of the safest places to raise a family.

It is a fairly quiet town because there are relatively few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. (Children, for example, often can't help themselves from being noisy, and being parents ourselves, we know!) Helenville has relatively few families with children living at home, and is quieter because of it. Renters and college students, for their own reasons, can also be noisy. Helenville has few renters and college students. But the biggest reason it is quieter in Helenville than in most places in America, is that there are just simply fewer people living here. If you think trees make good neighbors, Helenville may be for you.

One downside of living in Helenville, however, is that residents on average have to contend with a long commute, spending on average 32.38 minutes every day commuting to work.

Helenville is very much a car-oriented town. This is because the population of Helenville isn't large enough or dense enough to support an extensive public transit system. It has a lot of rural roads, and the distance between houses can be quite large, which together tends to discourage walking and bicycling to work. 97.06% of residents commute to work in their own car (and the drive is typically to a job out of town). People also tend to drive out of town for other services as well, such as shopping, doctors appointments, and more.

As is often the case in a small town, Helenville doesn't have a public transportation system that people use for their commute.

Demographics

The percentage of people in Helenville who are college-educated is somewhat higher than the average US community of 21.84%: 26.58% of adults in Helenville have at least a bachelor's degree.

The per capita income in Helenville in 2018 was $36,511, which is upper middle income relative to Wisconsin and the nation. This equates to an annual income of $146,044 for a family of four. However, Helenville contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.

The people who call Helenville home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Helenville residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Helenville include German, Italian, English, Hungarian, and Polish.

The most common language spoken in Helenville is English. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Notable & Unique Neighborhood Characteristics

Many things matter about a neighborhood, but the first thing most people notice is the way a neighborhood looks and its particular character. For example, one might notice whether the buildings all date from a certain time period or whether shop signs are in multiple languages. This particular neighborhood in Helenville, the neighborhood, has some outstanding things about the way it looks and its way of life that are worth highlighting.

Diversity

Did you know that the neighborhood has more German and Norwegian ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 48.6% of this neighborhood's residents have German ancestry and 8.4% have Norwegian ancestry.

is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 8.7% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak Polish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 97.5% of the neighborhoods in America.

The Neighbors

There are two complementary measures for understanding the income of a neighborhood's residents: the average and the extremes. While a neighborhood may be relatively wealthy overall, it is equally important to understand the rate of people - particularly children - who are living at or below the federal poverty line, which is extremely low income. Some neighborhoods with a lower average income may actually have a lower childhood poverty rate than another with a higher average income, and this helps us understand the conditions and character of a neighborhood.

The neighbors in the neighborhood in Helenville are upper-middle income, making it an above average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis reveals that this neighborhood has a higher income than 60.0% of the neighborhoods in America. In addition, 3.9% of the children seventeen and under living in this neighborhood are living below the federal poverty line, which is a lower rate of childhood poverty than is found in 68.9% of America's neighborhoods.

The old saying "you are what you eat" is true. But it is also true that you are what you do for a living. The types of occupations your neighbors have shape their character, and together as a group, their collective occupations shape the culture of a place.

In the neighborhood, 35.9% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is executive, management, and professional occupations, with 35.8% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants (15.5%), and 12.3% in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations.

Languages

The languages spoken by people in this neighborhood are diverse. These are tabulated as the languages people preferentially speak when they are at home with their families. The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 99.2% of households. Other important languages spoken here include Polish and Italian.

Ethnicity / Ancestry

Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.

In the neighborhood in Helenville, WI, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (48.6%). There are also a number of people of Irish ancestry (9.6%), and residents who report Norwegian roots (8.4%), and some of the residents are also of Polish ancestry (7.1%), along with some English ancestry residents (5.5%), among others.

Getting to Work

Even if your neighborhood is walkable, you may still have to drive to your place of work. Some neighborhoods are located where many can get to work in just a few minutes, while others are located such that most residents have a long and arduous commute. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 15 and 30 minutes commuting one-way to work (36.5% of working residents), which is shorter than the time spent commuting to work for most Americans.

Here most residents (82.3%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (6.7%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.


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